[CPEO-BIF] West Endicott (NY TCE

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

West Endicott TCE tests to begin
DEC seeking pollutant's source

By Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
August 20, 2007

A new round of TCE testing scheduled to begin this week will attempt to 
pinpoint the source of pollution flowing into a well-tended neighborhood 
of single-family homes in West Endicott and the Town of Union.

Officials from the state Department of Environmental Conservation said 
Friday they could not be sure if trichloroethylene (TCE) was flowing 
into the June Street area from two known industrial sites along a rail 
corridor about a quarter mile to the south, or whether another source 
was to blame.

Known TCE sites nearby include a defunct electronics manufacturing plant 
at 312 Maple St. and the former Canada Dry bottling plant at the north 
end of Badger Avenue.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070820/NEWS01/708200342

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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